How To Install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en
sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en is:
This package contains an international English acoustic model for Sphinx. It was trained from 100+ hours of recorded speech from the voxforge project, downsampled to 16kHz.
There are three methods to install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en
Install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en
Install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en
How To Uninstall sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en
Uninstall sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en
Remove sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en Configurations and Data
To remove sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en
Remove sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
